I think most people are waiting to see if somebody will be able to make a plugin for it to work with the Vera. While the product is great, the best I could do was to create some scenes and automate it with tasker (Autoinput plugin). Far from ideal.

i use the same setting: tasker, automate it and the crappy official app, the problem is that the app (broadlink eRemote) sometimes dosn't respond and you have to kill to continue. maybe a solution is to use another device in home (tablet) with the app always open and remotely control the app via tasker or ifttt.

when i try to connect remotely to the device (rmpro) via the official app seems that the two device (my phone and rmpro) need to preventively connect itself and then allow the command from the phone... i think this is the main reason for app crash since it's not possible to set a static ip address to the device

Hey guys! I nobody can figure out how to write a plugin to control the RM2, there is an alternative, but it's not quite as cheap. I wrote a tutorial on how to control IR devices with Z-Wave (Vera). I bought the iTach device and used the GC100 Vera plugin to control it (since they are from the same manufacturer). Check out my tutorial...

Hey guys! I nobody can figure out how to write a plugin to control the RM2, there is an alternative, but it's not quite as cheap. I wrote a tutorial on how to control IR devices with Z-Wave (Vera). I bought the iTach device and used the GC100 Vera plugin to control it (since they are from the same manufacturer). Check out my tutorial...

Hello everybody!Unfortunately I came to a conclusion that the interaction with Vera or Tasker will be impossible. After doing some tests monitoring connections and ports of my home network, I realized that the command sent by Broadlink application does not go directly to the RM-PRO. The application sends the command to a Broadlink website or another web interface, which checks the ID of connected devices and retransmits to the registered RM-PRO.

There is no direct connection via any TCP / UDP port, so we have to beg for Broadlink develop a plugin for Tasker / Vera.

I am trying to contact the developers 6 months ago and so far had no response.

Hello everybody!Unfortunately I came to a conclusion that the interaction with Vera or Tasker will be impossible. After doing some tests monitoring connections and ports of my home network, I realized that the command sent by Broadlink application does not go directly to the RM-PRO. The application sends the command to a Broadlink website or another web interface, which checks the ID of connected devices and retransmits to the registered RM-PRO.

There is no direct connection via any TCP / UDP port, so we have to beg for Broadlink develop a plugin for Tasker / Vera.

I am trying to contact the developers 6 months ago and so far had no response.

There is an unfortunate trend in recent home-control devices. Many of them require you to access them through some external web site. There is presumably some advantage for the manufacturers in this approach - they could even start charging for the service...

Personally I like to own the link to my home-automation and also have it still work if the Internet connection is down. This is why I was happy to pay for the Kira IR transceiver module. It is mine and I control everything that goes in or out of it.

Having said that, people do write plugins to control devices via external web access. A published API makes this quite easy. Otherwise it can be very difficult to determine the protocol and penetrate any security mechanism.